Notice it's just a basic table with a BGCOLOR= command stuck in now and again for good measure. That's how you do it. Whatever color you would like, put either the hex code or the word code for the color and you're off and running.

Changing Text Color, Too

Dig this too...

Yellow Stars

Green Clovers

Purple Moons

Blue something or other...

Here's What Did It

At least here's the top left cell...

<TD BGCOLOR="#ffff00"><FONT COLOR="#800517">Yellow Stars</FONT>

Notice it's the same commands as for the table. I just used the font color commands to change the text color.

Put it all together and you can create some pretty awful looking tables!